Canadians Back from China Express Indignation on Police Violence for Their Legal Appeal for Falun Gong
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- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 08:04:11 -0500
Media Advisory For Immediate Release: November 28, 2001
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Canadians Back from China Express Indignation on Police Violence for Their
Legal Appeal for Falun Gong
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Ottawa ? MPs will join Mr. Zenon Dolnyckyj and Joel Chipkar in condemning
Jiang Zemin regime?s violence against the 35 westerners who legally appealed
in Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
Their experiences raise grave concerns about China?s state terrorism, which
has been carefully camouflaged by hastily crafted ?laws? in violation of both
its own constitution and international human rights laws.
They also call on Canadian government to fully utilize the upcoming bilateral
Human Rights Dialogue between Canada and China to urge China to put an end to
it?s illegal ban on Falun Gong.
Film footage of the practitioners? appeal in Tiananmen Square will be
available for distribution.
Press Conference
Time: 1:00pm ? 1:30pm, Thursday, November 29th, 2001
Place: Charles Lynch Conference Room, 130-S Center Block, Parliament Building,
Ottawa
Contact:Lucy Zhou in Ottawa 613-599-7474, 613-862-7494 (Cell)
Background
On November 20, 2001, Mr. Zenon Dolnyckyj and Mr. Joel Chipkar of Canada
joined thirty-four fellow westerners from 12 countries including the United
States, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Israel, the UK and Australia to stage a
peaceful appeal in Tiananmen Square for the rights of Falun Gong
practitioners.
35 participants were arrested and many were beaten. Zenon was punched and
kicked in the face, head and body and was detained and interrogated with the
other participants. They were deported from China in between 24 to 48 hours
later.
Zenon chose to go to Tiananmen Square so that he could speak to all of China.
He wanted the Chinese people to have a chance to know Falun Gong is good and
not to be deceived by Chinese government?s propaganda. They have also shown to
the world that Falun Gong is not just a Chinese issue.
For the past two years, the Chinese government has been brutally persecuting
Falun Gong practitioners. More than 320 innocent people have died due to
mistreatment in custody, more than 100,000 people have been sent to
forced-labour camps without trial and over 1,000 have been detained in mental
institutions, subjected to electric shocks and forced injections of dangerous
drugs.
Falun Gong practitioners have won support and respect from millions of
citizens and governments around the world. Millions of concerned citizens have
joined to protect the essence of freedom and virtue that Falun Gong
represents.
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